Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-31
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

In Newberry county, last Thursday,
Ralph McGhee, colored, was killed by his
son, Yancy McGhee. The son is a grown
man and married. 1t apppearst that he in
terfered with the management of his faith
er's family, Whereupon the father struck
him with q boot. The son using a knife,
cut the artery Of his fathers neck while
the latter was on his way to church.
Elise Berthoi, a little girl of Italian
parentage, living at II Chambers street,
Charleston, died last Thursday from con-
gestion of the lungs caused by drinking a
pint of kerosene oil q few days before. 1t
is a singular coincidence that Mrs. Queen,
occupying the next room in the same
building, burnt herself dangerously the
very next day in trying to make a fire by
pouring kerosene oil on the sm%ouldering
embers in the chimney.
- The graded school at Johnston is thus
referred to by the Johnston correspondent
of the News and Courier: The free graded
school system has been the talk of our citi-
! has been a grand success, our town is max
ing more rapid progress than ever before
in her history. A naturalization fee of
$3.50 per session is all that is charged.
| The Johnston High School stands in
Edgefeld county without a rival, under
the admirable management Of Prof. j. f.
Brown and his able corps Of assistants.
- Dalton Danny, the murderer of Noel
| Perkins, was hanged at Camden last Fri
dayi in the presence ofabout n hundred
people. He was not at all excited and bid
his last farewell to his wife and family
with great fortitude. 1t was a touching
sight to see him kiss his youngest child, a
baby of about twelve months, goodbye.
The Rev. Monroe Boykin, a colored Bap-
tist preacher, delivered an impressive
prayer over the doomed man, which in
Voluntarily brought tearsto the eyes of the
witnesses to the hanging. The scaffold was
admirably constructed and great credit is
which he conducted the execution. Danny
died quickly and easily. He and his vic
tim were both colored.
Governor Richardson has committed
the death sentence of Oxie Cherry, the
child murderer, to five years imprisonment
in the penitentiary. Oxie was sentenced
to be hanged on the third Friday in Sep
TENDER for the murder of the infant child
OF R. H. West, of Allendale, Barnwell
county. The child was sent by her father
to act as nurse for the West baby, and she
filled its mouth with concentrated lye be-
cause she had been scolded by Mrs. West
for negligence in her duties. Numerous
letters from persons in all parts of the
country have been received by the Govern
or, begging him to annul the sentence of
death. The culprit is a negro girl only
twelve years of age.
Says a correspondent of the Augusta
Chronicle: Two colored men left Beaufort
a few evenings ago, in a one-horse cart, for
their homes in the country. 1t was a mis-
ty night. The road they were travelling
runs past a country graveyard. The two
men in the cart by some means knew offs
pole lying in the graveyard, suitable for a
fodder-stack pole, and they having some
fodder to stack and thinking it would be
easier to secure this pole than to cut one,
drove inside the graveyard, and after Sc
curing and loading the pole, their mule, a
very ancient one, became frightened and
tore off alta frightful speed, throwing both
men out of the cart, breaking the neck of
one and seriously hurting the other. The
man who escaped with his life says the
mule must have seen a ghost.